The Rambling Gypsy
Welcome to The Rambling Gypsy Podcast, where Tiffany Foy and friends invite you to join them on their porch for a candid conversation about the quirks and adventures that make up their lives. From Tiffany's eclectic collection of animals to the chaos and joys of raising boys, there's nothing held back as they share their unfiltered perspectives.
With a refreshing honesty and a refusal to sugarcoat anything, this podcast delves into the various oddities and peculiarities that come in life's way. From hilarious anecdotes to thought-provoking discussions, they explore the everyday moments that shape their experiences.
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The Rambling Gypsy
Stitching Success: The Designer Custom Leather Story Continued
Happy New Year, y'all! Tiff is back with Courtney from Designer Custom Leather to continue telling the story of how she transformed a simple idea into a thriving business - all while connecting with a loyal community.
Through live sales, a commitment to quality, and a heartfelt approach to entrepreneurship, Courtney shares insights on balancing custom demands, leveraging social media, and making a meaningful impact through their creations.
Here's what you can expect:
• Exploring the inception of the handmade leather bag business
• The power of connecting with customers through live sales
• Navigating the challenge of fulfilling custom orders
• The importance of using high-quality, exotic materials
• Emphasizing ethical entrepreneurship through community support
• Inspirational advice for listeners looking to pursue their dreams
• The deep connection to animal rescue initiatives through sales
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I put a blessing on it. Too real, that's not metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic Buzzing like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me dripping in it 24-7 on it. I'm just being honest. Ah, Holy water dripping, dripping from my neck to my creps. So I'm too stepping on it.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of fun on Sunday. Yeah, we have a lot of fun, but it's fun to be able to include. You know everything we work for all week. Get to enjoy it with the people that enjoy it?
Speaker 3:What made you guys decide to do so? You went from braiding ropes to all of a sudden, you made your first pillow purse. To all of a sudden, we're in full production. How did you decide to sell them? What made you guys go to a live deal on Sunday?
Speaker 2:It's not really a thought out decision. It was, um, let's try this. I would start to do previews on Sundays, Like I didn't know how to sell them because I didn't. I didn't have a website for a long time and then even on the website, I didn't really know I had to create it myself. It was, you know, I think, the GoDaddy and there were some other things that I did that I was just like I didn't know what I was doing at all and I had Facebook and I my Facebook was growing quickly because back then you could do like giveaways to get followers and I grew my following very quickly that way, until they quit allowing you to do those things. Um, and so to sell the bags, I would do a weekly preview on like Friday or Sunday and then post them on the Facebook page and they'd comment sold in the comments with their email address.
Speaker 2:And then I'd email them and they'd pay for them, and that's how it started. And then there were other companies that had just started doing some auctions and stuff and they were very supportive and they were telling me that it's. You know, I'm not a good person in front of the camera.
Speaker 3:I'm very shy reserved for the most part like I don't even with the podcast and the show. It's taken a long time to where I've. It's not, it's not easy.
Speaker 2:I don't like to be in front of the camera even still shots. I'm just, I'm not a camera person and, um, they were very encouraging. They said it's well worth it that the sales just it's worth it, Try it Right. And the first couple I can remember I was a mess, I was a nervous wreck. They come back in my memories now and then and I'm just like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:And then I got a little liquid courage, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2:And then it seems like there's just I don't remember exactly when it was I had a very good following, a very tried and true group of people that followed for the longest, a very tried and true group of people that that followed for the longest. But then it was like there was this whole nother wave of women that came in that are purse lovers, that had followed other pages, that found me Right, and it kind of overwhelmed me a little bit because it went from just selling a couple bags on the weekend to selling out and obsession, and then people yeah, telling people and word of mouth, and that's kind of all we've done.
Speaker 2:I've never advertised in magazines, I've never. I've never tried to put myself out there to advertise and try to grow my business. It's all been word of mouth that's so good, other than the giveaways early on in facebook. I mean, yeah, never gone to nfr, never been to vegas.
Speaker 3:Even so, you've never been to vegas, I've never been to vegas what the fuck are we doing, bubba?
Speaker 2:she doesn't fly do you see how many animals I have? How do I get away?
Speaker 3:yeah, you put them in the truck in the trailer, with me, and we go together just I know I can make that drive because I hauled horses out there. Oh, I can absolutely make it, I'm a driving machine.
Speaker 4:I can make an 18 hour.
Speaker 3:Oh, I can drive it 17.
Speaker 2:I'll drive it all day long. I'd love to, but I got to have somebody that for the time, believe me, I get it the timeframe to take care of everything, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a lot, it is a lot and Skeeter.
Speaker 2:And we have Skeeter, but I don't.
Speaker 4:Skeeter is our Nick. Yeah 100%, but it's a lot, it's a lot for one person.
Speaker 3:I lost my damn mind because I'm trying to figure out how to get to Dallas tomorrow to go deliver a horse and I had a whole fluctuation and trying to schedule all this shit. And then cheese and rice. Yeah, I almost didn't get to go with her and she was losing her mind. Well, I can't go on a field trip by myself. Who am I going to talk to? Steiner can only say so much. And Shiner Shiner, oh, if I could, I would change her name. Jesus Christ. She's been called worse. I can promise you that. But yeah, I mean we've got to go to.
Speaker 2:Vegas together, we'll make it happen. That's what we do. That's what Bubba coined. Make it happen is is our phrase, because when he first came into the picture, I guess he outside looking in, kind of recognized that, no matter what happened, what came up, I would make it happen Like. I wasn't going to know was not an option, and so he, he coined to make it happen as our happen. Like I wasn't going to, no was not an option, and so he coined make it happen as our little phrase.
Speaker 3:I kind of think that's why you and I get along so well. Because no, is just not an option.
Speaker 2:It's not an option. It's not an option. Make it happen, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:It can't be.
Speaker 4:I mean, no, complacency kills no.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 4:So you got to go you got to do it If you're equivalent.
Speaker 3:That would be handle it. Oh, yes, I do. I have a hot that says handle it. She has one that says handled, that's perfect, and that's how we roll around. Yeah, that's very perfect, I'm going to take a lap and when I come back, I will yeah. And I promise you you do not want that to happen, because it is not going to be good. Yeah, so we? Um, where do you guys? Where do you? Where do you see yourself? I mean, what's happening? Where are we going? What are we doing? No idea.
Speaker 2:Wherever it takes me, that's happening yeah that's happening yeah just wherever it takes me. I mean my dad. So my dad's always said he's always wanting more kind of thing and that's great. Yeah, he wants the bigger picture, and I do too. But he kind of wanted me to not outsource, but have enough help to multiply what I'm making more and I. I get that, but at the same time I kind of like where I'm at. I have a personal relationship with the clients and I'm able to scary sometimes, sometimes when you don't want it to get out of control and it's very.
Speaker 3:I mean, you've been to my place and I'll use the resort as a analogy with that. Is it um analogy with that? Is it's um, my clientele if I, if I am not there, they'll show up on a wednesday or a thursday, but from friday and saturday that's go time and they know that I'm down there and I'm working the bar and we've got the live music and and what have yous and the whatnots. But if I am not there by friday, at whatever time, and most of them all have my cell phone number, If not, they're blowing Nick up and Riley and son, what are you doing? Why are you not here? Because, like you guys, we all kind of become family and it is, it's important to you representing what you're doing. This is heart and soul and building and designing, and to have that rapport with your people is very, very cool and so and I do I feel guilty when I'm not there. I'm like, okay, fine, I'll be there.
Speaker 3:I mean just stop what I'm doing and and I'll go to the resort and do one and what have you. But yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, and I mean it is, it's a, it's a lot of work and it is. We kind of eat, sleep and breathe this, but at the same time, we do it because we want to Right. It's not like it's forced ever. You come in each week and you get to do something new. It's not you're not doing. You're doing the same thing, but you're not doing the same thing, you can create new things.
Speaker 2:And then it's kind of fun because I guess it's kind of like show and tell. At the end of the week it's like here's what we have for you.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:And to have the reaction and the acceptance and the love of what we do is fun.
Speaker 3:It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:It is cool. It is cool we don't have big circles as far as friendships, and I say that we have a very big circle of acquaintances. We don't have a lot of like, right, I get it. I think the older you get, the more it gets that way, and I think that's why bub and I get along so well. Is we? We just, you know, sound off of each other, but every week we get to hang out with our friends. Yeah, on the live sale, yeah, and crack up and have fun and and they kind of get mad at us when we don't go run.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if we don't go live. They want live sales, they want to hang out and I get it More, Courtney.
Speaker 3:That's so cute. That's how you make you feel so good. It does, it does. And especially being camera shy and not wanting to be in front, not wanting to really talk to them and then forcing you into the game. That's got to make you feel warm and fuzzy, and you should. I mean, look what you're doing. Look at this place. Have you smelled it lately? It smells really good.
Speaker 2:The funny thing is and everybody that buys a bag tells us this they mention it that we can go to dinner not even thinking about anything. Go in and everybody that hosts us says y'all smell amazing. And the first time it happened we're like thanks, she was like you smell like leather sniffing my leg what are you doing? Yeah, and then it clicked but but yeah, the smell it lingers yes, it lingers and it's not a bad linger.
Speaker 3:It's not a bad linger, so much worse yes, oh yeah, it could be a lot worse.
Speaker 1:I can name some. Yeah, I can name a few things.
Speaker 3:We're not gonna yeah, so we, um yeah, john, different hides you have which you have to talk about. My favorite first what's that?
Speaker 2:tibetan lamb oh yeah, duh that is my.
Speaker 3:I'm infatuated with it, have been forever the woolly bags are very popular that is my absolutely favorite thing in the entire world and they're fun obsessed they're a lot of fun I have boot rugs. Help joy with that deal and she is just amazing. And my tibetan lamb. Yeah, rugs are just free. Yes, but I'm obsessed they're a lot of fun they're so you have from cow hides to cow hide to have your tibetan lamb authentic ostrich, authentic zebra.
Speaker 2:Um, what all? What all do we have? There's so many, there's different, so many, all the different printed leathers. There's all the embossed leathers. There's embossed crocs and things that there is that look.
Speaker 3:Oh boy, here you go um stop it it's hot pink too look, it almost matches my deal, that's cute. We're almost the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the lamb bags are a lot of fun. Oh my gosh, I don't know what Tibetan lamb? There you go.
Speaker 3:If you have never in your life touched a Tibetan lamb.
Speaker 2:And we have all different colors. I mean, obviously there's no hot pink lamb out there.
Speaker 4:You're not going to see one of those in the pasture. You can see it in the camera behind Courtney, but there's a stack of it.
Speaker 2:There's a table full of them, I was playing them earlier.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you saw me rolling in them earlier. We were trying to figure out where to put the cameras, but that was me over there just fondling your lamb.
Speaker 2:All kinds of fun colors.
Speaker 3:Anyways, if you haven't done that, you should try it one time. It's so yummy. That's a chargeable offense. You can tie me up, never mind. Anyways, now we're talking about leather and straps and tying things. This is a good show. Make sure we don't forget to put the E on this one. Yeah, so you got zebra cows. Ostrich, ostrich, you have exotic hides, exotic hides.
Speaker 2:They have the ostrich in more colors than I would have ever thought, really. Yeah, there's pink ostrich back there.
Speaker 4:Or it's baby blue ostrich. We should all have a pink ostrich.
Speaker 2:Denim blue, that's beautiful.
Speaker 3:And they're dyed. Obviously I mean, nobody just spits out a pink ostrich, oh, axis Springbok, I didn't even.
Speaker 2:I mean, I see them every day, so it's thinking about it as like yeah, buffalo, authentic buffalo Axis Springbok. There's some black Springbok Really pretty exotic hides, do you? We've done a what was um christy's bag wildebeest? No, what was that caribou? Yes, we did a caribou for custom, caribou for christy cook it was pretty cool it was.
Speaker 2:It was challenging. It was, I think I probably borderline might have pissed her off. It took me forever. I procrastinated forever on how to do it because I never dreamed hair could be that thick on an animal like I. Now know how they're out there in the snow and the freezing.
Speaker 4:And they can handle it because two set of clippers yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:It's not just that it's long, I mean, it is so thick it's twice as thick as any carpet, or it's crazy so why they can be in a lizard and not be cold, right?
Speaker 3:that much incident so where did the conversation come about? I want, want a caribou bag.
Speaker 2:She. So Christy is on what is it? The most wanted list. She's got the most wanted list sportsman channel. She reached out, I guess. She found us Instagram and reached out and asked if we would do a custom bag and I agreed to do that and took way too long to get it done, but once it got done, I was very relieved that I was able to make it happen, because one I didn't want to mess it up, I didn't want to screw up her hide and um, I think I think, all in all, everything worked out well with that. Um, she was happy with the bag and I've sent her another bag since then. Would you ever came the challenge.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was it was truly probably one of the biggest challenges, which is crazy. The only other thing that we've had in the past to work with that was very challenging, that we I don't want to say failed at, but it's only so much. So much of it that we could actually work with was authentic alligator. Yeah, the belly was fine, but there was no way to go through. You can't work with that horn on the top. It's it's hard as nails. No doubt it'll break needles left and right. So there's no way to I I couldn't get it done I mean, somebody else probably have to actually hand stitching.
Speaker 4:Yeah it.
Speaker 2:And so with an all punch street, I'm not sure how to go about that and I don't know that I. That was very difficult.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have Gator on my couch, yeah. I don't know how or what or the belly.
Speaker 2:Like I said, the belly part is fine, yeah.
Speaker 3:But the if it's one soft spot on their head and that's how you can reach. Yeah, jumping back, yeah, but the um, if it's one soft spot on their head, and that's how you can reach yeah, jump back and do live on data.
Speaker 2:We've got some really pretty embossed gator that looks very, yeah, very nice, very real, but it's not not the real deal so custom bags is?
Speaker 3:you guys have such a cool production in how everything gets pumped out, it's pretty hard for you guys to stop and pump out a custom bag, yeah so.
Speaker 2:I think the word custom kind of maybe is a little deceiving. We do offer custom orders, it's just they're few and far between anymore because but what we do make, we sell it as fast as we can make it. And working with someone on a custom it takes a lot more time. You have to stop find out what they want, go back and forth, make sure it's exactly what they want, Just kind of. The process of the back and forth takes a lot more time and it's not a bad thing. I like to offer it because if somebody has a vision and they really want a certain specific thing, I'd like to be able to provide that for them.
Speaker 2:But it's also one of those things that sometimes time is money and I don't upcharge a lot on my customs compared to what I would sell it on the website for compared to what I would sell it on the website for.
Speaker 3:And um, it's, it's because time is money, yeah, and if somebody wants a custom bag, in my opinion time is money. And if you're going to sit here and have, well, whatever, whatever. If we're going to go through hides and we're going to pick through this and we're going to pick through that, and you want blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, and it's hard for the, it's hard for some people, so why I say like, if somebody has a vision and they know what they want, I'm happy to do it, because that's quick. Right, I can, I can do that and I know that sounds silly to not want to take the time to, but, like you said, I mean it's not, but if I can, if anybody understands on the front end and the back end, then yes, it's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's hard for them to sometimes if they don't know exactly what they want, because they'll scroll through and they'll be like they'll give me all the details and then they come back with. But I also really like this. Like there's so many different things that come up and then we'll put out a new bag and it's they want to change to that, and so it's hard to do custom when so many things come up that it's like you really can't put it all into one bag necessarily, and then a lot of times those customs end up on those resale pages pretty quick and it's kind of, you know, one of those things that it's like. That's a situation Give me your ideas, give me your ideas and if I can make it happen and let me run with it, I will make it, and if you can make it happen, I will make it, and if you can grab it, great.
Speaker 2:It's just it's hard to stop and offer it as custom.
Speaker 4:Right, because then Two weeks later and on by self-trade, it's a kick in the dick.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's like it's Not a doubt in my mind, it's a little frustrating At a higher price point than what they bought it for.
Speaker 2:Not generally, I give it to. I have seen some of them marked higher than what, not necessarily customs, but bags in general, not a lot, not a lot, yeah, but um, for the most part they, they, they don't try to mark them up, which is, which is nice. I mean, that's only fair, right, um, which would tell me I'm not priced high enough. But um, the custom thing is just, I don it's, I can take the time to do the customs, right, but then I don't get as many bags done for the sales, like on the weekend, right, and then the people on the weekend are like, why don't we have any bags for?
Speaker 1:this weekend or we don't go live yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it's kind of just a you know which one is worth it more.
Speaker 3:It's a catch-22. It's a great area. I totally get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I can please a lot more people on a live sale than one or two for a customer.
Speaker 2:That is going to drive you up the wall. Most of them are very. Most of the time they're very easy to work with. It's just I have to relate and understand that there's just so many choices, there's just so many options, right. There's just so many choices. There's just so many options, right. So we try to just take that off the plate and keep my sanity, just because I, like I said, I'm a people pleaser and it bothers me when I don't. I want to get it done and I'm waiting to hear back and then if I'm slow to get back, then they get frustrated and you know, it's just kind of it's easier to just not deal with it. Yeah, to just make, get their suggestions, make, get their vision, make my vision, put it all together and sell it on a Sunday.
Speaker 3:What is the best way for people to purchase bags from you? Do you think it's the Sunday sale? Is that during the week, Do they? Can they just go and we?
Speaker 2:90% of the time we have stuff on the website.
Speaker 2:I can't always guarantee it. There's a lot right, Because what we make, if we do a sale, it all sells. We don't have set prices to where something won't sell, so it goes on the website. If we do it auction style, there's things that will go above retail, below retail, but it all sells. So that's why it's hard to stock the website. So we try to do live sales a couple weeks and then maybe do a week where we throw stuff just on the website and mix it up a little bit so that we get fresh stuff on the website now and then they can purchase on the website anytime and we ship as fast as it's sells. If it sells while we're in here, it's packaged and shipped the same day. I mean, unless we have, you know, things pulling us out of the shop. And things do happen. Life happens but for the most part we try to ship as fast as we can. But, that being said, we're not Amazon and you know that is one thing.
Speaker 3:Then that is super important to me that everybody understands that this is all hand done, handmade one and it's five people.
Speaker 2:It's not, no, it's not a big team of people like so when everybody off, so when this thing, these all these people cutting this and it all comes together shipping it through machines that are shipping it through machines. It's all in-house hand cutting your fucking fringe hand cutting every bit of it the straps, everything, everything, everything, everything. The lace some of this lace is hand cut. Yeah, the long pieces.
Speaker 4:That's almost a 52 inch piece of lace closer to 80.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like almost an 80 inch piece to whip stitch all these crazy yeah yeah, it's, uh, it's a lot of straight lines we have a clicker.
Speaker 4:We have a clicker where we could automate and make things even easier.
Speaker 2:We bought one, but we never.
Speaker 4:There's something that comes to it that every piece is handmade.
Speaker 2:Right, we bought it. That's where it sits. That's where it came in the door. It hasn't ever even been hooked up. It's never been used. It's a used piece, but we have never used it. And I'm trying to, I want it to go because I don't, we don't use it and it's taking up space, yeah, but, like I said earlier, it takes a forklift to get it out of here. So I got to find somebody that can come get it, yeah, and somebody that will take it, cause that's just crazy.
Speaker 4:And you're like I can get somebody to get it out of here.
Speaker 2:You're embroidery? Yeah, we started that.
Speaker 3:So I don't know if anybody has ever tried to figure out an embroidery machine what?
Speaker 2:I still don't know 100% all of it. I can do the basic stuff. That was kind of a God thing that I had a girl working for me in here and she happens to do embroidery at home. That's like her, one of her side businesses at home and I. I knew that but I would. It didn't even click until the machine was already here and in place that oh, I have somebody that can be that person.
Speaker 2:Um. So she was working helping with the leather shop and another friend of mine, a childhood friend of mine, does estate sales and she messaged one day and she was like, um, do you have any interest in an embroidery machine? And I was kind of like Hmm, yeah, maybe. So we went, looked at it, bought it, brought it home. The lady that had it the only reason I kind of just jumped in on it was the lady that had it. The only reason I kind of just jumped in on it was the lady that had it was so meticulous and had notes on like everything, maintenance, everything for how long she had had it.
Speaker 2:I mean, this thing was babied, so I was pretty comfortable that it was a good machine so we set it up and she came in and she was like, oh, I can do that, and we used to embroider bags and do monograms on them, but I took them to somebody to do right, and so now we can do all of that in-house and we're doing buckers and makeup bags and, yeah, sweatshirts and vests and stockings and that's awesome all kinds of stuff with embroidery guys can see this one, check it out we've got the, the mom and dad, oh yeah, and the pullovers, yes so that's epic we've got the swag.
Speaker 2:All of that stuff's on on the website.
Speaker 3:It's so good and your little um fringy little. Where's your little christmas guy? Where's the one, the one that I like so much, the one that says deck the deck, the?
Speaker 2:halls, not your family best shit ever. That's pretty good yes, that's pretty funny oh there is.
Speaker 3:That's a good one too that's another one that sold.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this guy, yeah, yes, that's what it was.
Speaker 4:Look how cute y'all deck the halls and not your family it's so good so the okay, so this bag is called the mother bucker?
Speaker 2:I'm sure it is. Do you want? There's a story behind it.
Speaker 3:Let's hear it, let's go on, come on, before we deck the family, let let's hear it, let's go.
Speaker 2:Okay, so just kind of the gist of the background of that.
Speaker 1:This goes back to the, the.
Speaker 2:Josh Ward before.
Speaker 2:I ever met Josh Ward Okay, a friend of mine that did dog rescue was very good friends with the people that ran the CBR events and they had a bucking event in Conroe and they needed help with selling tickets and whatnot, and so we went up there to help out. I needed ahead of that. I needed something, not a big purse to carry. I needed something easy to throw on my wrist and do what I needed to do and not have to set it down. And so I created the bucker for the bucking bull event that has a built-in wallet insert so that everything's compact, it's right there on your wrist and good to go.
Speaker 2:And then, I don't know, a couple years later, the zipper pocket got added to the back and I was like, well, we can't change the name of the bag, it needs to just be a variation of the bucker.
Speaker 2:So I called it the mother bucker, and where that comes into the josh thing is that's where we're gonna have the two pockets, yeah the uh, the event he was playing at that and that was one of the things we had to do too was go to cavenders for the um autograph signing of the bull riders and josh and all them and help out with that. And a funny story Early early on, right after I created the bucker and somebody had ordered one custom, I messaged this girl to let her know that her bucker was ready, but autocorrect didn't get the B Oopsie.
Speaker 3:I don't know why mine doesn't ever get the F, mine's super yeah, dude, that's cute.
Speaker 2:Nobody says says that I don't proofread ever you'll. You'll find that real quick I don't proofread I hit, send, and then I come back like I mean whoops, and um, I was mortified. And she, luckily it took her like three hours to read the mess before she read the message and, um, she laughed hysterically, she, she said, I made her day, made her husband's day, luckily it was not a bad day. I didn't have the. I was very, very much like I don't know much smaller at the time.
Speaker 4:And did you get Tuff Hedeman?
Speaker 2:He signed Tuff, Hedeman signed the original Bucker.
Speaker 3:He's done it in a far with us a couple of times and hung out and did whole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's really cool dude, really cool dude. Yeah, yeah much yeah, so.
Speaker 3:So we have, um really cool, we have decked the halls, we have you've got a whole christmas line of jessana's favorite.
Speaker 2:There's all kinds of different. We had, uh oh, snow. You didn't um that one's already sold and gone.
Speaker 3:I want to know what kind of pocket sizes are in there and then, oh, the santa bucker oh that stop it. Yeah, the sand cute one. Look at here those are fun.
Speaker 2:This is so cute oh.
Speaker 3:Got their own pocket in that, the little Santa.
Speaker 2:Claus Yep. So the pocket on the back is big enough for your phone or you know. It's just easy access for things that aren't inside.
Speaker 3:Everybody loves easy access All the venues that I've been to All the venues that I've been to we have multiple straps and easy access for the buckers.
Speaker 4:This one's already sold.
Speaker 3:I just want y'all to know.
Speaker 2:Oh, the ho-ho-ho-ho in a bottle of Merlot.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's the one we were talking about. Yeah, we are talking about Merlot.
Speaker 2:So they're fun and that's the saddle leather. They're so freaking cute.
Speaker 3:I love that.
Speaker 2:It's so good. People enjoy them. It's nice to have a little different holiday.
Speaker 3:It is. They're so cute. Somebody's coming to say hello, frankie girl. Everybody, this is Frankie girl. Let me tell you about Frankie. Frankie is one of our puppies from Tiger. Y'all have all met Tiger at the studio and on the porch and Frankie is Tiger's firstborn baby that we had no idea that was born and we found her eight hours later in my backyard and Tiger was going insane and courtney and bubba saw the pictures that me and nick did. We did our. Was it the valentine's day pictures that could know the christmas pictures I saw him at christmas we saw the christmas pictures that we did and
Speaker 3:and I named her frankie um after the movie million Dollar Baby because when I walked outside, garrison and I walked outside to take Tiger Pittle um after having her very first litter and her babies, and we heard this whimper and this cry and I told Garrison, I said there's a big, I think there's a cat or something, that's just, and Garrison being gerson, well, whatever, and so I've turned my phone, I got my flashlight on and I find frankie on and I've got like a side area on the different levels of the pool and it's got river rock there and there's frankaky just squirming around and hollering and crying and I picked her up and brought her in and I said oh shit, freaking the merle of all merle dogs and put her in there with the other babies. And she split the sea and she latched on to tiger and she was like I am here, y'all better all move, I am hungry. And um, yeah, she is an absolute rockstar and I swore I would never sell her.
Speaker 2:And then you guys reached out and I said okay, y'all are, fam, I needed another dog like I needed a hole in my head, but I just had to have her and you kept her name and look at her.
Speaker 3:We have the same hair and she's so beautiful she's so good and she looks just like your tiger and she gives hugs just like her mama, and I love you so much, frankie girl she's a good girl, she's so good and she's so beautiful.
Speaker 3:Look how pretty she is. Well, I'm so proud of you guys and so proud of everything that you've done and how it all has happened is an inspiration for so many people. If you could tell anyone that is lost in the world today and after the COVID and after the bullshit, and have no idea what you want to do, throw some inspiration out there and tell them how Courtney Nixa went to to a couple years of college and said you know what this isn't for me. I dabbled in the horse deal for a little bit and then I came home and I and I braided some ropes and now I'm here in this ginormous shop with thanks, a million hides, with hundreds of followers and selling out bags every single Sunday. Give some inspo to that one kid, that one child, that one lost soul, whether it's a 18 year old individual or it's a 51 year old like me.
Speaker 2:Yeah nobody has the answers. All I can tell you is just do what makes you happy. I mean seriously, if it, if it's going to work, it's going to work. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be, it'll work. But I just, I don't have an answer. I just, I didn't foresee this, I didn't. I still don't have a clue where I'm going. It's just one day at a time and yeah, what's meant to be will be and it just will work, works and it happened with will willpower.
Speaker 3:It takes hard work determination. I mean yeah, and not giving up.
Speaker 2:And not giving up.
Speaker 3:Make it happen. That's right. Yeah, well, you're doing it and I am so proud of you and it is epic. Thank you, and I cannot wait to watch this evolve and go from where you guys are.
Speaker 2:I'm curious to see where it goes. It's, it's yeah, like I said, there's no answer and there's no plan. It's kind of the best part by the seat of our pants. The audience kind of helps tell us where we're going next.
Speaker 3:Honestly, I love that you listen to them that's very important, yeah it's really important yeah, they're the reason we're here.
Speaker 2:They're the reason we're here. I mean, you do, I can't make them just to make them. I mean, I gotta make've got to make them for what they want.
Speaker 4:I mean, there have been styles that Courtney's come up with, that we were like man, this is the best thing there. And it just, and then one that we didn't think would.
Speaker 3:Right, and that just flew off. The yeah, weeds didn't blame wood, right, and that just flew off the yeah, yeah, yeah, they challenge us every day.
Speaker 2:Oh, they do, and I I mean that in a good way.
Speaker 2:I mean that in a good way, right, yeah, I mean, our tejas bags are whatnot with the straight top have always been like our staple and I created the boot top, kind of mimicking the top of a boot, and I'm not gonna lie, I cussed it the first couple times. I made it because I was trying to put a zipper in it and it's just it's. It just doesn't work with a zipper. Like it's, it takes two hands. It just it doesn't flow right. It's just not. So they kept requesting and kept requesting and kept requesting.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you have to think a little bit outside of the box and go a little different than what is the norm that I was used to, and I just took the zipper out and added a flap and the flap became what closes it. But it works and it's a whole new style because with the braided front and whatnot, it just gives that touch of fringe without being a full fringe Right. So they challenge us and it's become I guess I say that because it's become one of our best sellers, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:So they have good suggestions, they do. It's good that you listen. We can make it happen, we do.
Speaker 4:The best one is. So you know, there's the old Coke's versus Pepsi. Yeah, yeah, it's the friends, no friends.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:There is clearly a line. There is, and the people that like friends like the friends and the people that don't like friends, they do not like friends.
Speaker 2:Right, but I was a never fringer before I started making bags.
Speaker 3:No, I will have friends from my hair, from my ears, from my toes, from all the things and the first bag that I made for myself and carried with fringe.
Speaker 2:I haven't carried one without fringe since I've just there's something about it.
Speaker 3:So my fringe started when I was probably about, and I said fringe, not friends, because I don't have any friends, but my fringe started when I was probably about four to five years old and I put it on my bicycle yeah.
Speaker 2:And I've been having fringe ever since.
Speaker 3:Little tassels off the handlebar oh yeah, I had them there and back and then I figured out how to put them on my banana seat and then my little whoo, yeah, little flag on the deal I had fringe flying off the flag, or maybe it was just frayed flag, I don't know. But yeah, we're going to just call it fringe.
Speaker 2:But yeah.
Speaker 3:Yep, no, I've always been fringe, fringe and fur.
Speaker 2:Fringe and fur.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a good combo. It is a very good combo.
Speaker 4:It's a very good combo yeah, I love the. Josh Ward said oh Don, very good combo, it's a very good combo.
Speaker 2:What did Josh Ward say? Don't ever grow like a little bit of fringe.
Speaker 4:That could be a lime in my thing.
Speaker 3:Well, there's so many more. I could spin off with that, but I am not going to because I've already seen Nick's face going. She's already gave me these and these and this a couple of times today, so I'm not going to say what I want to say right now. We're just going to leave it at that. But best way to purchase Sunday live sales Facebook live sales. Yes, designer custom leather. Follow it on all Facebook and Instagram socials.
Speaker 2:Yep, we got a TikTok also, but that's a story for another day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got a TikTok also, but that's a story for another day we got Facebook, tiktok, instagram and then the website.
Speaker 2:And we're working on getting the lives through the website, streaming on all platforms. Perfect. The website's your best friend. You can earn rewards points for every dollar you spend. Get discounts off in your next purchase.
Speaker 3:That is epic.
Speaker 4:And when we don't have live sales, we have live drops. Love it, they get dropped at a certain time and then it's first come, first serve. Unless we have quantities, nice, we give up the fives.
Speaker 3:Well, I am beyond proud of you. I think this is what you guys have accomplished. It's really epic. Thank you, I can't wait to see what is going to happen and where this is going to go Super fun. Anything else you want to say to your group, to your people, just thank you thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you's not enough really. They let us do what we love to do every day and support a lot of animals in doing so.
Speaker 3:Yes, support hi small support, custom made support, handmade support, family owned.
Speaker 2:Each purchase literally and I mean this sounds cliche, but it's literally each purchase feeds horses and dogs and cats. We don't have your typical you know household of horses and dogs and cats. We don't have your typical you know household of horses and dogs and cats. We did horse rescue, dog rescue. We've got, you know, everybody's stray cats that we get fixed and it adds up in a hurry and so you know, as fast as stuff comes in it goes right back out the door between feed bills and vet bills and we were sitting at your place a month or so ago and you and I were sitting there talking and talking about why you keep going and keep producing and doing the bags was to pay all the four-legged friends and their feet.
Speaker 3:We can have a really nice beach house or something. We can all have a whole lot of different things, but you know what? Yeah, once again, that's where you and I can relate.
Speaker 2:We are, we are committed to the the critters, to the critters, yeah, but we're happy, yeah, no and that's so good and I love that that makes my heart so happy you guys are. I wouldn't have it any other way I love y'all so much.
Speaker 3:Thank you for doing this and thank you for doing what you're doing and everybody that is supporting and buying y'all like share, follow designer custom leather. Um, I will be sharing it all the time. We're going to work on some really cool design things that we've been kind of talking about, and so we're super excited about it. So, um, hey, yeah, yes, let's do this Exciting, and I'm taking Courtney to Vegas. I'm hell or high fucking water. I'm taking Courtney to Vegas. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2:I won't say no, no, yes.
Speaker 3:You heard it, everybody out there on tape. I will be doing the recording.
Speaker 4:You heard it.
Speaker 3:It's all right, this is all yeah, heard it, it's all right, this is all. Yeah, we got cameras and shit. Frankie, frankie, frankie, we're going to vegas, baby, we're going to vegas, frankie girl, we're going to vegas. You won't go vegas, you won't go vegas, yep yeah, I gotta get us a refrigerator in that motor home. I'll just load everybody up and we're all shaboom. Oh, frankie girl, you won't go Vegas. It'd be so good, it'd be so good, she'd fit in.
Speaker 2:Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nick's good about getting them little tags. We'll take her everywhere we want to take her. Bye, frankie girl.
Speaker 4:She'll hang out with those Dad's. Susan, she's about to be hanging out with Axel Roofs.
Speaker 3:He'll be here. He'll be here Thursday he just It'll be here Thursday. It was a good time. You guys follow, like, share, do all the things Y'all know what to do. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Love you.